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DaKeler t1_iqz7ae6 wrote

Reply to comment by wjbc in Bronze Age China - Shang dynasty [1600 ~ 1045 BC] by gimhae_pyeongya

Would you mind providing sources for those modern historians?

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wjbc t1_ir04s6k wrote

I’m getting this from a lot of sources. It’s just a general trend among ancient Chinese historians.

For example, Records of the Grand Historian is the first of China's 24 dynastic histories and was written in the early 1st century BC by the ancient Chinese historian Sima Qian. But it covered a 2,500-year period! That’s why modern historians don’t take everything in it as gospel.

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